Neil Gray's birds and other wildlife
Atlasville, 20 Dec 2008 Two more trips completed to our field camp near Kolwezi. The rainy season has well and truly arrived and can make getting around on some of the tracks to the drilling sites decidedly interesting. Of course it may be a case of ‘water, water everywhere’ but for running field camps …
Atlasville, 25 Oct 2008 Three more weeks completed at our field camp, which is now almost nearing completion with the thatched roof over the kitchen/dining area in the final stages. The onset of the rains has been threatening with daily cloud build-up and the odd rumble of thunder. The local farmers are waiting for that …
Atlasville, 14 Sep 2008 In late June we started building a field camp for the project in the Kolwezi area that I have been working on. Then the camp was not much more than a fenced area with two tents and some basic camping equipment. Work has continued during the past 2 months and the …
Atlasville, 26 Apr 2008 My job now takes me for extended periods to the Zambian and DRC Copperbelt region, where to date I have still not had the luxury of a camera or better than a pair of pocket 10×25 binoculars – after all I am there for work and not birding! Nevertheless, I am just back from my …
Atlasville, 12 Oct 2007 Just back from two weeks in the DRC, where I managed a little more birding than my previous trips mainly because I walked close to 50 km in Miombo woodlands during my field work. I spent one night some 200 km from Lubumbashi camped on the bank of the Luapula River …
Atlasville, 24 May 2007 Just returned from almost 2 weeks working on the project in the Lubumbashi area of the DRC. This time I took the Canon 20D with me, but it was hardly used. The only bird photo opportunity was in the garden of my guest house in Lubumbashi, where I was able to …
Atlasville, 25 Apr 2007 Just back from a week working in the Lubumbashi area of the DRC. I went with high hopes of adding a few birds to my Africa list, as this area boasts some 450 species, 10% of which are not found south of the Zambezi. Based at a guest house in Lubumbashi …
